The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

{A Psalm of David.} Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.

And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

Why hast

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

{To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.} My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

Why go

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Because

Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

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And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.